this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
66 points (92.3% liked)

Technology

71998 readers
3170 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
66
Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack? (chroniclesmagazine.org)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The author seems like a total dick, but given the recent fear/rumor of the possibility of a false flag attacks on U.S. soil, I feel like something like this isn't inconceivable.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Drones have an incredibly limited range, so any drone attack would have to originate either inside the United States, off our coasts, or within the borders of Canada and Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, indeed. Can you buy or build a drone in the US? No problem. Can you get explosives or other nasty stuff to arm it? No issue for a determined group. Can you find an undefended soft target? Of course, there is a smorgasboard of those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One person making a drone is far different from China staging an attack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It only needs one right drone with the right payload at the right place and time...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It isn't hard to make a drone. I have confidence that I could do it, and I've never tried. They are available off the shelf, and nobody will bat an eye if that becomes my hobby - just keep a few around and ready to fly with cameras and post photos of my various outings and I look just like any of dozens of other people I know who have drones.

I would need a place to test my first attempts, but it isn't hard to find a farmer's field in winter where nobody will see what I'm doing. Which is to say I couldn't stage such an attack today, but I could next year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nobody bats an eye when you buy ONE drone. Buy 100 and people will ask questions.

load more comments (14 replies)